FA: CSL Maccaferri replica guitar, with resonator

[t***@gmail.com]

In the 70's Mario Maccaferri worked with a Japanese guitar maker CSL to
make an accurate reproduction of the original D-hole model, including
the Maccaferri internal soundbox. This is one of those guitars,
probably from about 1977. It's on eBay now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7361252168

You can see pictures without going to eBay at:
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Thanks,
Tim

[k***@msn.com]

And Tim, for what it is worth, many of Mario's internal
soundboards were removed from his guitars when some of the bracing
became loose. There was no flaw --t they just required some normal
maintenance for a guitar that large and powerful and that light might
develope.
It was thought the best solution was to just break up the internal
sheets and remove them through the sound hole. And naturally, many
guys who did this are sorry now. <g>
I have heard the same blues in minor played on one with and one
without and there are some tones missing in the one with the missing
sound plate. Maybe Reinhardt meant for those tones to be in there
because he was playing one of these guitars at one time.
Good luck with your sale.

Ken

[W***@aol.com]

Tim -

That's a beautiful guitar - it looks as though you've taken good care
of it. Thanks for posting the links.


Wade Hampton Miller
Chugiak, Alaska

[David Eastwood]

Post by t***@gmail.com
In the 70's Mario Maccaferri worked with a Japanese guitar maker CSL to
make an accurate reproduction of the original D-hole model, including
the Maccaferri internal soundbox. This is one of those guitars,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7361252168
http://www.centrosome.net/git/CSL35.jpg
Thanks,
Tim

This hurts. I used to own one of these - a CSL Gypsy III. I bought it
on the occasion of my 21st birthday in 1976, with some money I
received as a gift from my godfather. If I remember correctly, it
cost 140 pounds back then - which probably makes the $800 or so that
this one just sold for a pretty good deal. It was a gorgeous
instrument, and one of the few (out of the many) that I wish I still
owned. If anyone ever comes across one missing the little nub of
fingerboard beyond the 24th fret, that was mine - I sawed it off to
make room for a jury-rigged soundhole pickup.

Alas, I was persuaded to trade it for a 'real' electric guitar after
that act of vandalism. I did take temporary custody of a friend's
Gypsy II (same guitar, no internal gubbins) for a while - if anything,
that one was even better, but he bought it back from me.

All this makes me so nostalgic, maybe a Gitane is in my future...

Cheers,
David
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